As you probably know by now, we're going to be covering Apple's WWDC live this week. What can we expect to see at the conference? Here are a few thoughts.

We speculated for some time that they would be announcing the release date of the iPhone. They won't be doing that of course, since they already told us that it will be coming on the 29th. Since there's no way that Jobs will be speaking without mentioning the iPhone, we can likely look forward to some sort of announcement pertaining to the iPhone.

Since he's already told us about the release date as well as the ability to utilize third-party software sometime in the future, that takes care of some of the big stuff. However, there are still features that I'm sure we don't know about, so we can likely expect to hear about these. My guess would be more Google applications. I'm really hoping to hear that we will have the ability to use an IM client, but recent documents suggest otherwise. We also are expecting to hear about the release of the iPhone SDK.

The iPhone won't be the only thing Jobs talks about. He already gave us new Mac Pros earlier in the year, so I don't expect to hear of any major updates or redesigns. They also just gave their Macbook Pro line updated processors, so no need for any big announcements there. I would not, however, be surprised to hear about a redesigned iMac at the show. There has been much debate about this recently, and I have come to a conclusion. Why would they only update the processors on the Mac Book Pros, and not the iMacs? Surely if they were going to do it, they would have done so by now. My only explanation is that they have been redesigned and Steve is planning on announcing it Monday.

Something else that we can possibly expect is an announcement of new iPods. I'm pretty up in the air about this one. One can look at this one two ways. On one hand, it can be argued that the release of a new iPod could steal some of the thunder away from the iPhone, so they will wait until after June 29 to announce them. On the other hand, there are plenty of people that just flat-out won't be able to afford an iPhone. While they can't afford one, they are going to be drooling over it, and wishing for an iPod with similar features like a widescreen and touchscreen. So if Apple releases a new iPod, they likely won't lose sales on the iPhone, but rather get higher sales from those that wouldn't be purchasing an iPhone anyway.

Finally, the entire WWDC is going to be focused an Leopard, so we will certainly be hearing more about it. Since it was delayed, people are dying to hear about some new features, though I can't really begin to contemplate what we'll be seeing. We have already heard that that they've chosen ZFS as their file system, but other than that we haven't heard much.

Check back with us Monday for up-to-the-minute coverage of Jobs' keynote speech. In the meantime, what do you guys thing we'll be seeing at the show? Maybe he'll shock us with an Apple Tablet PC. I really wouldn't hold my breath for that one though.